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US Civil War Battle of Gettysburg and Military Intelligence

In seven pages this paper examines the role military intelligence played in the Civil War with the Gettysburg campaign the primary...

Literature and Women of High Society

Twenty-eight young men bathe by the shore, Twenty-eight young men and all so friendly; Twenty-eight years of womanly life and all ...

George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion

she must attend an ambassadors party and again pass as part of Englands elite. These hurdles seem small in comparison to the hurdl...

Character Transformation in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

the play, for example, as Eliza becomes more independent and rebellious as she gains her polish and veneer, Higgins becomes more b...

Life as Seen Through the Classics

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

The Thematic Element in Art

song of Liling is that which provides us with the foundation of the story. Now, of course, the music and the song actually serv...

'The Children's Hour' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

the midst of conversation, a factor that appears to be typical of Longfellows verse. The entirety of the poem, while formally stru...

Families in the Works of William Shakespeare and Happiness

of shallowness in schemings clothing, while rejecting the honest and heartfelt response of Cordelia, the only daughter who truly d...

William Shakespeare's 'Absent' Mothers in Six Plays

"What, will you not suffer me? Nay, now I see / She is your treasure, she must have a husband; / I must dance bare-foot on her we...

Comparing Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Henry the Eighth

faced the slave, / Which neer shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, / Till he unseamd him from the nave to the chaps, / And fixd ...

Church Elders and Ecclesiology

logical that the same sentiment would apply to the post of "elder" as well. While not stated overtly, the clear implication is tha...

Fiction Writing and Philosophy of the Romantic Era

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

Literary Social Criticism

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

Wilson and Henry in The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

to enlist in the Union army. He leaves his mother and the farm behind, which have always offered him a sheltered existence. We see...

Literature, Understanding, and the Lack Thereof

Verloc has used her brother, her foundation for understanding her husband dissolves and the two no longer are able to communicate....

Civil War Context of Literary Characters Henry Fleming and Huckleberry Finn

. . . Dont go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh cant" (Crane 5). In his innocence, however, he ...

Settings and Symbolic Meaning in Stephen Crane's 'The Blue Hotel,' O. Henry's 'After 20 Years,' and Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find'

to business places that had long since been closed" (Henry 69). In this particular line we see that the area in which the hardw...

Comparing Shakespare's 1 Henry IV and Richard II

championing the people who had initiated his ascent to power, Henry IV turned his back on them, and transformed himself into a dis...

Thematic Analysis of Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau

understand that Thoreau would believe that poets contribute a great deal. Hence, it is understandable why he makes such claims. Fi...

Sharon Kay Penman When Christ and His Saints Slept

which involves the story of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine (Penman, 2002; Penman, 1995). Maude was considered as t...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 'Paul Revere's Ride,' Its Inaccuracies, and the Real Paul Revere

slumber to acts of resistance. However, Fischer demonstrates that Revere did make his famous ride and that the ride was signific...

Social Evolution During the Nineteenth Century

their perception of his genius. (Gould 26) Where gender behavior is concerned, a complicated and controversial issue of de...

Bard's Personality as Reflected in His Plays

were specifically constructed to entertain royalty, it was the impassioned actions of his characters that leave little doubt that ...

Expatriates and Their Writings

each other often about literary topics as well as the war (Tender is the Night). It was during this time in France that Fitzger...

Relationship Between Henry IV and Prince Hal

that he has mercy as well as wisdom. None of this his father sees. King Henry IV tells his son in scene ii, Act III, that familia...

Henry Clay Frick's Art Collection

In five pages this paper examines the publicly donated art collection of Henry Clay Frick after his death in terms of how the vari...

Hypothetical Debate Between Presidential Candidates Socrates and Henry David Thoreau

best and brightest citizens." After the candidates shake hands, the moderator presented the first topic for debate, that of taxat...

Henry David Thoreau's Concept of Wilderness

He believed nature and the wilderness to be the source of strength, vigor and inspiration. He even referred to the wilderness as ...

William Shakespeare's King Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Doubling

The overall story of "The Two Noble Kinsmen" follows fairly well its primary source that is Chaucers "The Knights Tale" from his c...

'Hemingway Hero' in A Farewell to Arms

and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring" (Hemingway 13). There is little said about Fre...